What is your dream?
ar starts, traditionally we make resolutions. But, this year, instead of the usual list of things to do and things not to do, maybe we should aim bigger?
Will it be easy? Nope
Will it be worth it? Absolutely. I saw this on a sign on a bridge over the road at a point somewhere along the route as I was doing the great north run on Sunday. It has stuck with me. By mile 9 is definitely was not easy, and by mile 10 onwards it was just a case of keeping putting one foot in front of the other, one step at a time. 2days later it is still not easy: I am still aching, getting up and down stairs is a bit of a challenge, and I have a stubborn blister that won’t settle. (This is not a whinge, I…
Be a human being, not a human doing.
I have had a lovely couple of weeks off work, away from social media and totally unplugged. We’ve recently moved, to a house which is a bit of a ‘project’, so it was also great to get away from the endless to-do list of all the things that go along with moving and renovating. I went with the best intentions to leave work at work, and leave the to-do list undone, knowing that it will all still be there when I got back. It was surprising to notice how difficult it was to really switch off. I consciously thought “right, now it’s holiday time, hurrah, I get to stop for a while”.…